Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-07-02
GENERAL NEWS.

near Killarney, Ireland. Both escaped un-
hurt.
Last weeks changes in the visible supply
of grain in this country show decrease IN
wheat of S94. COS bushels, in corn OF 1859
bushels. and in oats of 173, 686 bushels. The
present stock of wheat aggregates 4,Zi1,0OU
bushels, of corn ii, no, $50 bushels, andSof
oats SOL, 547 bushels.
John Rhodmaker, carpenter at st. Louis,
has become convinced that the girl recenI!y
murdered at Rahwry, New Jersey, was his
daughter.
Professor j. II. Breese, of Jennings semi
nary, a Methodist institution at Aurora, Ill,
has been suspended, pending investigation
of charge of improper intimacy with one
of his young lady pupils.
A receiver has been appointed for the de-
funct board of trade firm of Kershaw d. Co.,
of Chicago.
In a railway collision at Pottsdam, Russia,
several persons were killed.
The Union Pacific announces that it has
severed relations with the Central Pacific as
to all business between San Francisco and
points in Oregon, Utah, Montana, and on
the line of the Canadian Pacific.
The queens jubilee was made the occasion
of disorderly demonstrations at Cork and
other Irish towns. number of the partici-
pants had their heads broken by the police.
The crop prospect in California are very
unfavorable.
The postal convention between the United
States and Mexico, recently ratified by the
Mexican government, has been approved by
President Cleveland. 1t largely Increases
the facilities for postal communication be-
tween the two republics.
The queens jubilee was celebrated at New
York by public services at the Metropolitan
opera house. Flags were displayed at the
city hall in honor of the event by order of
Mayor Hewitt. At the church of the Holy
Innocents solemn requiem mass was cele-
brated for the repose of the souls of "the
10000 Irish who have died of starvation"
during the present reign.
The steam-barge p. n. Walker was sunk
in Lake Erie, off the mouth of Black river,
Ohio, with a loss of eighty lives.
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, has gone
east, leaving five unsigned bills to be dis
posed of by the lieutenant governor. Among
them is the Colman pleurO- pneumonia bill,
to secure the veto of which a strong pressure
has been brought upon the executive.
A "pork pool' has been formed at New
York to fight the western combination. The
new pool expects to slaughter two thousand
hogs per day as soon as it gets fairly under
way.
James II. Walker, of Ration, New Mexico,
has been appointed register of the land
Office at Santa Fe.
There has been failure of crops in Asia
Minor, and extensive districts are threatened
with famine.
number of English notabilities, all of
whom appear to be tories or "liberal-un-
ionists" will be raised to the peerage by the
queen as a jubilee favor: Thirteen bar
onetcies and thirty three knighthoods will be
conferred, and divers European princes will
be decorated with orders.
One of the two ladies just chosen trustees
of Wells Female college, at Aurora, New
York, is Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
Five desperadoes boarded Grand Trunk
train at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, and relieved
the passengers of their money and valuables.
Several arrests have been made Oh suspicion.
gang of "tail-twisters," Infatuated at
the Boston celebration of the queens jubi-
lee, made an unsuccessful attempt to pull
down the figures of the lion and the unicorn
which decorate the front of the old state
house in that city.
The internal revenue bureau..will establish
laboratories at Chicago, ST. Louis, and
garine.
All the railroads in New Hampshire are to
be consolidated, with a capital stock of $1O,-
100000.
The reported negro conspiracy in Laurens
county, South Carolina, dwindles under in
vestigation into iliputian dimensions. 1t
appears that the colored people of the county
have recently been organized by a white
man named Hoover into a secret society,
whose supposed objects have filled the local
chivalry with terror. There has been no
bloodshed as yet, and the indications are
that the excitement will soon subside with
out resort to severe measures.
Mary II. Waldron, of Lafayette, Indiana,
yesterday obtained a divorce from Edward
81. Waldron, a wcll-known railway official,
on the ground of cruel treatment
The excitement in Cincinnati over the FL
deity failure has measurably abated. None
of the other banks in the city appear to have
suffered very seriously by the failure, and
only one important business firm is believed
to have been crippled. Suits will be insti-
tuted against all the solvent stockholders for
the value of the stock. Many facts are COM
ing to light illustrating the meanness and
duplicity of Harper and his fellow-conspira-
tors in their dealings with the customers of
the bank. The venerable widow of DR..
Hall, the Arctic explorer, lost $5,OOO-her
all-in the crash. It's limited that ST. ,OOO, 600
of the Fidelity's funds, which was supposed
to have gone into thelwheat deal, really found
its way into the private purse of one of the
wreckers.
The strike of the New York silver-chasers
is failure. The men are gladly accepting
work conditioned upon their Withdrawing
from the Knights of Labor.
The eastern electric-light companies have
formed pool to fight the carbon monopoly,
which recently made an advance Of 100 per
cent. in the price of carbons. The new COM
bination has contracted for the entire petro-
leum-coke product of the Standard Oil COM
pany, and will manufacture carbons at New
York. The new move simply means the
substitution of one monopoly for another,
and will be of no advantage to the general
p lblic.
The Egyptian question is making good
deal of trouble for European diplomates. A
cabinet council was hurriedly summoned at
London, to consider the matter. The